{"id":502544,"date":"2026-02-25T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502544\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:15:13","slug":"sainz-urges-f1-to-be-open-minded-about-rules-changes-for-2026-cars-and-more-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502544\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainz urges F1 to be &#8216;open-minded&#8217; about rules changes for 2026 cars, and more \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wednesday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to ivz, Jake and Mike Roach!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<\/p>\n<p>Born on this day in 1932: Tony Brooks, who won six Formula 1 races for Ferrari and Vanwall, and lost the 1959 world championship to Jack Brabham in a final-round title-decider at Sebring. He died in 2022<br \/>\nBorn on this day in 1944: Francois Cevert, who won the 1971 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but died in a crash at the same circuit two years later<br \/>\nBorn today in 1946: Jean Todt, who presided over Ferrari\u2019s dominant years with Michael Schumacher, then became president of the FIA<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Wednesday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to ivz, Jake and Mike Roach!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-502544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}